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5 Questions: Helen Oyeyemi

5 Questions: Helen Oyeyemi

6 Aug 2009

Give us five words to describe White is for Witching? Quaint, little, antique, quince, spoon. Which authors should be more famous than they are now? Jesse Ball, the consistently amazing Chicago-based poet and novelist. Samedi the Deafness and…

Helen Oyeyemi - White is for Witching

Helen Oyeyemi - White is for Witching

30 Apr 2009

GOTHIC DRAMA There is clearly much promise in the 24-year-old fingertips of Helen Oyeyemi but the scorching hype she’s been on the end of to date has been a little excessive. Her tale of a Devon-based family torn apart by the mysterious loss of the…

The Opposite House

Helen Oyeyemi

23 Apr 2007

SOCIAL DRAMA Helen Oyeyemi’s family left Nigeria when she was four and she draws on this experience and themes of cultural dislocation for her second novel. The Opposite House follows pregnant singer, Maja, as she tries to find ‘her Cuba’, a place…

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